Olivia
@newsollie.bsky.social
I’m a veteran journalist at Newsday, who just retired in December 2025 after 32 years!
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀
January 24, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀
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genuinely stunning image
January 24, 2026 at 1:37 AM
genuinely stunning image
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January 11, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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The American Academy of Pediatrics & several other medical groups can move forward w/ a lawsuit challenging RFKjr's vaccine policies. A federal judge rejected arguments from Trump regime lawyers who say the medical organizations can't show the policies cause harm www.msn.com/en-us/health...
January 7, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The American Academy of Pediatrics & several other medical groups can move forward w/ a lawsuit challenging RFKjr's vaccine policies. A federal judge rejected arguments from Trump regime lawyers who say the medical organizations can't show the policies cause harm www.msn.com/en-us/health...
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This message hits hard.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This message hits hard.
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Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
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Once upon a time — and when it really counted — CBS News stood up to power. Now, it is an accomplice to censorship.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News postponed a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Once upon a time — and when it really counted — CBS News stood up to power. Now, it is an accomplice to censorship.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
My retirement party from Newsday with Good friends and colleagues.
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
My retirement party from Newsday with Good friends and colleagues.
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NEW: GOP lawyer Eric Neff, a new DOJ attorney helping to push for state voter records, previously represented a top conspiracy theorist involved in Trump's 2020 election subversion — a tie underscoring the alarming shift in the DOJ from defending to attacking voting rights.
DOJ’s New Voting Lawyer Has Web of Ties to Election-Conspiracy Theorists
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
NEW: GOP lawyer Eric Neff, a new DOJ attorney helping to push for state voter records, previously represented a top conspiracy theorist involved in Trump's 2020 election subversion — a tie underscoring the alarming shift in the DOJ from defending to attacking voting rights.
My retirement dinner either Newsday and former Newsday colleagues.
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
My retirement dinner either Newsday and former Newsday colleagues.
I’ve retired from Newsday after 32years!
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I’ve retired from Newsday after 32years!
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@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
‼️ Aside from the appointment issues, experts said the criminal case filed against James in October appeared very thin.
Grand jury declines to re-indict Letitia James after judge dismissed first case | Letitia James | The Guardian
Grand jury declines to re-indict Letitia James after judge dismissed first case | Letitia James | The Guardian
Grand jury declines to re-indict Letitia James after judge dismissed first case
Decision comes less than two weeks after judge ruled similar case against New York attorney general unlawful
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Me with Newsday editor in chief Rochell Bishop Sleets at my retirement send off. 32 years at Newsday comes to a close tomorrow.
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Me with Newsday editor in chief Rochell Bishop Sleets at my retirement send off. 32 years at Newsday comes to a close tomorrow.
It’s one more day until I retire from Newsday after 32 years. They gave me a wonderful send off this afternoon. It’s been 42 years in journalism overall. Now I’ll be a different kind of laborer in the vineyard!
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It’s one more day until I retire from Newsday after 32 years. They gave me a wonderful send off this afternoon. It’s been 42 years in journalism overall. Now I’ll be a different kind of laborer in the vineyard!
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Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.
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www.reuters.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.
November 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.
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The continued failure of mainstream media to recognize or acknowledge the racial demographic anxiety undergirding and enabling the political moment and eroding of democracy, government and the safety net, is an abdication that makes us complicit.
November 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The continued failure of mainstream media to recognize or acknowledge the racial demographic anxiety undergirding and enabling the political moment and eroding of democracy, government and the safety net, is an abdication that makes us complicit.
This is great!
April 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is great!
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